Eric,
I believe the Yahoo!groups list server just sends stuff to the e-mail address of your choice on your account
profile (it might default to the yourID@yahoo.com if you don't do anything). Looks like what you need (regarding
yahoogroups) is to edit your profile (Yahoo! Account Information) to identify/select where you really want the
messages to go.
-ppy
--Eric Armstrong wrote Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:24:40 -0700 :
> Ok. I tried. And tried, and tried. > > I set up a mailing list on Yahoo groups thinking, "how hard > could it be?" The answer has turned out to be "damn near > impossible". (If anyone has any alternatives to offer, I > would be glad to hear of them. Or, if anyone is thinking of > following in my footsteps, the remainder of this message > might help you avoid the pitfalls I fell into.) > > Oh, it was easy enough to set up the group. But becoming > *part* of it is another matter. Herewith, a small litany > of the issues: > * The help documents talk about "primary" and "alternate" > email addresses. But there are no fields labeled > "primary address" anywhere -- only "alternate addresses". > > * It turns out that any address other than a yahoo email > account is considered an "alternate" email address. > > * So, attempting to use the "alternate" address as the > home address, and counting on the primary address as > being your work address, for example, simply doesn't > work. > > * It therefore appears that you need to sign up twice at > Yahoo -- once from your own address, and once frok your > work address. > > * Having created the work, I then found I couldn't send > a message to it! That may have been because I had set > my "alternate" address to my home address? Not sure. > > * To be able to send to the list, I had to send myself > and invitation to join, and reply to it. > > * But now, having joined as a subscriber, I now got two > copies of my post -- one to myself as owner, and another > to myself as subscriber. > > * So I deleted myself as subscriber. I was sort of hoping > that, having "broken the ice", I would now be able to > send. But no such luck. > > * The only remaining option, it appears, is to add myself > back as a subscriber, give my subscriber-self all of the > admin options possible, and delete my owner-self. > > * At the moment, I'm trying to do that. Only it appears > that attempts to send myself an invitation no longer > work, probably as a result of having deleted myself! > > God, what a nightmare. > > Finally, I have received no response whatever from Yahoo > to any messages I have sent, other than the very first. (At > this point I've sent a round half-dozen or so.) > > In short, the mailing list mechanism appears to be powerful, > but it is far from intuitive, and their ability to respond > appears to be painfully underwhelming. > > > Community email addresses: > Post message: unrev-II@onelist.com > Subscribe: unrev-II-subscribe@onelist.com > Unsubscribe: unrev-II-unsubscribe@onelist.com > List owner: unrev-II-owner@onelist.com > > Shortcut URL to this page: > http://www.onelist.com/community/unrev-II > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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